Racing Stripes is a regular modern Hollywood's family friendly movie with all typical clichés and flaws. In this movie there are two subplots united into the big one: first one with human characters while second is about talking animals. These two worlds and two story lines exist without direct contact and most of the time they not depend on each other. The only common point of them is that young girl (main human character) and zebra Stripes, which accidentally came into a small farm, are dreaming about one thing: to take part in horse races and win. Nothing promising and nothing original here except a zebra instead of a horse. The whole story-line is also quite predictable and closer to the end it become even dull. All the human characters are clichéd and boring and of course don't expect any decent acting in Racing Stripes except for some voice performances. The animal characters are quite different from each other. Like in other similar movies some of them created for a story, some of them (like two flies) only for making fun. But even jokes in the movies are so typical and mostly silly. Finally this movie failed in emotional level. Despite all these flaws Racing Stripes is not particularly a bad movie. It's just on a same level with most of modern family friendly movies, the average quality of which is decreasing with every year. Most of the time the movie is not annoying and the jokes are not very rude. The voice performances are much better than performances of human characters and cinematography in many moments wasn't bad. So don't be too strict. Most of kids will like it but for grown-ups it's not the best way to have a good time. But at the same time it's not the worst way.
My grade: 5.7
My grade: 5.7